Sign up to demand actions to tackle climate crisis

The fight against climate change is an objective shared by COMSA Corporación and UNHCR. For this reason, we support the collection of signatures to demand urgent measures against the climate crisis from governments.

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30.7 million forcibly displaced people due to climate emergency

9.8 million people forcibly displaced by conflicts, war and violence.

Climate emergencies cause three times more forced displacements than wars and conflicts. Natural disasters generated 30.7 million displacements in more than 140 countries and territories in 2020.

The humanitarian cost of the climate crisis is enormous: forced displacement, hunger, conflict, death and devastation. If we do nothing, by 2050, 200 million people could be in need of assistance every year as a result of the climate emergency. The poorest regions of the world are the hardest hit.

UNHCR wants to collect half a million signatures to demand concrete measures to address the climate emergency and present them at the upcoming Climate Summit (COP 26) to be held on the 1st of November.

From COMSA Corporación we join this initiative: we need you to make it happen. The climate emergency is global and requires an urgent response. Millions of people around the world are already suffering its effects, and many others could suffer them in the short and medium term. Sooner than we think, we could all be climate displaced. In the face of the climate crisis, inaction should not be an option.Sign up now to demand urgent actions on the climate crisis. (*)

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What do we claim?

Zero emissions by 2050

An urgent transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies is needed to achieve zero emissions by 2050.

Reduce environmental footprint

The humanitarian community must take steps to reduce its environmental footprint in an environmentally friendly and climate-risk sensitive manner.

Sustainable economy

Seize the opportunity of the COVID-19 crisis for an economic transformation on a green and sustainable basis.

“The impacts of this crisis are greatest where fragility and conflicts have weakened the coping mechanisms; where people depend on natural capital for their livelihoods; and where women, who bear the greatest burden of the climate emergency, do not enjoy the same rights.”

António Guterres, UN Secretary-General

Massive flooding in South Sudan

Bak, an 80-year-old South Sudanese refugee living 50 metres from the Blue Nile in Khartoum, does not remember seeing floods similar to those he saw in late 2020 in Sudan, which wreaked havoc across the country. "The water was coming into my house and I couldn't sleep. The water kept flowing for seven days until it went down," explains Bak.

Situations like Bak's in Sudan are becoming increasingly common around the world. Climate change causes weather events such as torrential rains, heat and cold waves, storms, hurricanes, tropical storms, extreme droughts, and refugees and displaced people are the most vulnerable ones.

UNHCR provides assistance and protection to climate displaced people, whose reasons to flight are often interlinked with conflicts. It also works to assist victims of natural disasters when requested to do so by affected governments.